BRACING FOR MARIA. A man and a boy nail a board over a window on September 18, 2017, in Trois-Rivieres, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, as Hurricane Maria approaches the Caribbean. Cedrick Isham Calvados/AFP

The maximum-strength storm made landfall on the Caribbean island of Dominica around 0115 GMT Tuesday with top winds swirling at 160 miles (257 kilometres) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) says

Storm warnings and watches go up in many of the Caribbean islands still reeling from Irma’s destructive passage

WASHINGTON DC, USA (Sept. 18, 2017) — Maria was forecast Sunday, September 17, to surge to major hurricane strength as it nears the storm-battered eastern Caribbean with 85 mile (140 kilometer) per hour winds, the US National Hurricane Center said, on a path similar to that of mega storm Irma earlier in the month. Continue reading Hurricane Maria grows on Irma’s path→

FLOODED. Homes in the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds are flooded on May 8, 2017. Catherine Legault/AFP

Some 2,500 homes in Quebec and more than 300 in Ontario have been flooded, and at least 1,500 people have been ordered to evacuate – most of them in the Canadian capital region

PIERREFONDS, Canada (May 9, 2017) — Canada mobilized its army to help thousands of flood victims try to hold back waters and save their homes Monday, May 8 after the worst flood in half a century struck, but authorities were optimistic that rising water levels would soon crest. Continue reading Canada’s army rolls in after devastating floods→